The canine population who 3ide around Liverpool
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-eet — well some of them, irway — will be ever-grateto MAT Transport (part of ; MAT Group) who recently iertook an unusual delivery the station's Broadgate e.
They brought in some thirty lgian maple trees to cornte the landscaping and, ap-ently, the vehicles made journey from Dover to ndon under police escort ey presumably had to nego:e some dangerous Doggie intry in Kent)!
Dri the serious side, though, live trees had to be dered fast, while they (the es, not the dogs) were in dormant stage — ie just ore their buds started to -St. A sudden rise in tern-ature, apparently, would Te jeopardised their safety I the whole landscaping !ne would have been ned.
Nith our present Spring ather, I would have thought t MAT were on a safe bet except for those dogs.
To us "oldies" with good mories the name
Euebird" means a lot of igs, and all of them connecwith land or water speed :ords — Sir Malcolm and nald Campbell, and all that. 3ut to many people in the -th and east of Scotland :uebird" means only one
— local buses; for it (a ebird) has been a symbol of rthern Scottish Omnibuses 1 its predecessors for very ny years.
lb celebrate its twenty-fifth iiversary, the present corniy has produced a 48-page tory, no less, of the buses he north east called, simply ie Bluebird".
duch of the book contains aographs — old ones you bet — and there are remi.ences of the career of my Sutherland of erhead, stories from the ly days of open top buses competition on the road, so on. Sounds like a good nostalgic buy at 21.25 plus 35p packing and postage, from Northern Scottish at Aberdeen.